How to do it...

To update the protection group, you need to stop the protection of all data sources with Retain Data, and then add the data sources to a new protection group. DPM will begin protecting these data sources using MBS:

  1. Open the Administrator Console, select the Protection feature, and in the Protection Group Member list, right-click the member and select Stop protection of member...:
  1. In the Stop Protection dialog, review the used Disk space and the Current free disk space in the DPM storage pool. The default is to Retain protected data, leave the recovery points on the disk, and allow them to expire per their associated retention ...

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